PokerStars Casino On the Way. Good for Poker?

The debate is nothing new and centers around whether having an online casino will attract new players to the poker tables or take players away from poker and donate their money to the house. A sportsbook could also be in the works.

What do you guys think?

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[QUOTE=]Highlights from Amaya 14Q2 call
Amaya estimates that up to half of PokerStars’ players are playing sports or casino at another site.

A sportsbook product is coming in 2015. Money is set aside to develop in-house, but licensing an existing product isn’t out of the question.

Casino results on FTP so far are “encouraging.” Casino has only been rolled out to a “small subset” of the total user base.

Amaya will be “significantly scaling up” casino exposure in 14Q4 and 2015.

The company expects regulation of online poker in Russia around June of 2015.

Baazov on Canada: “[E]very single province in Canada has been discussed with some of them before the transaction as well. I would say from a compliance or regulatory perspective, the revenue base that’s being generated as it relates to poker is already done and approved from a compliance perspective. We’re now looking at the markets from a casino and sports betting perspective in terms of those growth initiatives.”

There was little to no mention of social.[/QUOTE]